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Developers Diary: February 2016

TRENT to DERBY

Draycott to Borrowash - Scenery and Route Development

Benefiting from the leap year I have left it to the last possible moment in February to tell you about the month's activities. I started the month off with carving out the main route from Draycott & Breaston station to our next port of call in our quest to reach Derby. Borrowash is the next station a few miles down the line and landscaping is mainly rural. As you approach Borrowash however you start to see the landscape changing from farmland to the urban sprawl of Spondon and Derby.

The most striking structure as you look towards Derby from Borrowash station is the cooling towers and the chimneys of the old Spondon Power station. In the 1960's there were in fact two power stations side by side on the same site. Spondon A and Spondon H are already on the developers sheet and design is underway.